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QUEEN & SLIM
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Director: Melina Matsoukas
Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith
While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man (Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya) and a black woman (Jodie Turner-Smith, in her first starring feature-film role), are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results, when the man kills the police officer in self-defense. Terrified and in fear for their lives, the man, a retail employee, and the woman, a criminal defense lawyer, are forced to go on the run. But the incident is captured on video and goes viral, and the couple unwittingly become a symbol of trauma, terror, grief and pain for people across the country.
QUEEN & SLIM will not show Monday, December 30th thru Wednesday, January 1st.
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133 MIN
THE MOUNTAIN MINOR
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Director: Dale Farmer
The Mountain Minor is a realistic and heartwarming story about one person and his family that tells the story about the many people and families of Appalachia who left their homes in the 1920s-1950s and migrated to urban Midwestern centers to survive, most never to return to the land and life they loved. (Credit)
One night only, featuring pre-show music from Wright, Hamilton, Hoffman, and Beard and a post-show Q&A with director Dale Farmer! Admission $10.
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THE TRUTH ABOUT KILLER ROBOTS with MAXIM POZDOROVKIN
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Director: Maxim Pozdorovkin
When a robot kills a human, who takes the blame? This eerie, eye-opening work of science nonfiction uses incidents in which robots have caused the deaths of humans—from a Volkswagen factory in Germany to a bomb-carrying police droid in Dallas—as a window into global automation and its consequences. Though they are typically treated as freak anomalies, each case raises questions of accountability, legality and morality. Exploring the provocative views of engineers, journalists and philosophers, the film goes beyond sensational deaths to examine more subtle but pervasive ways that robots pose a threat to humanity.
Q&A with the filmmaker after the show.
One night only, free admission!
About the filmmaker:
Maxim Pozdorovkin (Director/Producer/Editor) is the director of five feature documentaries and multiple shorts. His films include Our New President (Sundance 2018 Jury Prize), Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (Sundance 2013 Jury Prize) and The Notorious Mr. Bout (Sundance 2014). His documentary Clinica de Migrantes (HBO) was nominated for a 2016 IDA award. Maxim holds a PhD from Harvard University for a dissertation about early propaganda. Next, Maxim is directing How To Rob Banks for Dummies, a hybrid documentary about cult video artist Joe Gibbons.
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83 MIN
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Appalshop: STRANGER WITH A CAMERA
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Director: Elizabeth Barret
During the 1960s, filmmakers from around the world came to Appalachia to document the dire conditions of the region’s poorest residents. Media focused the nation’s attention on economic justice and helped to lead to the declaration of the War on Poverty. But the use of the striking images of poverty also raised questions about whether media-makers with otherwise good intentions exploited and perpetuated long-held stereotypes of Appalachia.
In 1967, this tension between media and community led to an extreme and tragic response, when eastern Kentuckian Hobart Ison shot and killed Canadian filmmaker Hugh O’Connor, who was in the region to document conditions of poverty.
Stranger with a Camera revisits this tragedy as a way to examine the relationship between media-makers and the communities they portray in their work.
Free admission! Following the screening, please join us for a panel discussion about representation of Appalachia in the media.
This event is sponsored by the Appalachian Rural Health Institute, Athena Cinema, Center for Campus and Community Engagement, OHIO Honors program, and University Libraries.
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61 MIN
One Night Only: BLACK & BLUE
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Director: Deon Taylor
Cast: Naomie Harris, Tyrese Gibson, Nafessa Williams
BLACK AND BLUE is a fast-paced action thriller about a rookie cop (Naomie Harris) who inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realizing that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the one person from her community who is willing to help her (Tyrese Gibson) as she tries to escape both the criminals out for revenge and the police who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage.
Tickets to this event are free and come with one free small popcorn! Tickets are available at the box office the night of the show.
Sponsored by OHIO’s Black Student Cultural Programming Board, Multicultural Center, NAACP and Division of Diversity & Inclusion.
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108 MIN
Women Pioneers: MANKILLER
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Director: Valerie Red-Horse Mohl
In 1985, with her people feeling deeply disenfranchised by the US government, Wilma Mankiller took office as the Cherokee Nation’s first female principal chief. Having relocated from Oklahoma to San Francisco earlier in her life, Mankiller worked with the Black Panthers and the Alcatraz occupation movement, eventually bringing the passion and experience she gained in those movements back to her people. During her decade-long tenure as principal chief and beyond, Mankiller’s leadership enabled the Cherokee Nation to become one of the most economically and culturally successful tribes in America.
Free admission, as part of our Women Pioneers Series, celebrating 100 years of women’s suffrage.
Post-show discussion with director Valerie Red-Horse Mohl.
This spring, the Athena is proud to present four profound films celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage. All shows feature intros and post-show talks, and all shows are free admission.
This event is sponsored by the Ohio University Libraries, School of Film, Women’s Center, Multicultural Center, Black Student Cultural Programming Board, Cutler Scholars, Margaret Boyd Scholars, OHIO Honors, Arts for Ohio, English Department, History Department, and Athena Cinema.
Click here for a full listing of events celebrating the centennial.
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74 MIN
The Met: Live in HD: Handel’s AGRIPPINA
Language: Itallian
As the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of Handel’s tale of deception and deceit. Harry Bicket conducts Sir David McVicar’s wry new production, which gives this Baroque black comedy a politically charged, modern updating.
Admission $18 (students & children $8)
OHIO Student: Free
Thanks to Arts for OHIO, we are able to offer a limited number of FREE student tickets available on first-come, first-serve basis. Must have valid student I.D.
Special thanks to George Weckman and the following supporters:
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250 MIN
HONEY BOY: Last Day Tuesday, December 24th
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Director: Alma Har'el
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe
From a screenplay by Shia LaBeouf, based on his own experiences, award-winning filmmaker Alma Har’el brings to life a young actor’s stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father through cinema and dreams. Fictionalizing his childhood ascent to stardom, and subsequent adult crash-landing into rehab and recovery, Har’el casts Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges as Otis Lort, navigating different stages in a frenetic career. LaBeouf takes on the daring and therapeutic challenge of playing a version of his own father, an ex-rodeo clown and a felon.
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93 MIN
Science on Screen® with Dr. Temple Grandin
Limited seating available!
Please note that the Frontiers In Science Lecture in Baker Center Ballroom, on Monday evening at 7:30 p.m., is un-ticketed and seating is available on a first-come, first serve basis.
Join us for a pre-show talk from Dr. Temple Grandin, Professor of Animal Science, Colorado State University.
Her talk will be followed by a sensory friendly screening of the HBO biopic, Temple Grandin, starring Claire Danes. Our projectionist will keep sound levels slightly below the set range and keep some lights on to create a comfortable setting for all patrons, including those on the autism spectrum.
About the speaker
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Temple Grandin’s achievements are remarkable because she was an autistic child. At age two she had no speech and all the signs of severe autism. Many hours of speech therapy, and intensive teaching enabled Temple to learn speech. As a teenager, life was hard with constant teasing. Mentoring by her high school science teacher and her aunt on her ranch in Arizona motivated Temple to study and pursue a career as a scientist and livestock equipment designer.
Dr. Temple Grandin obtained her B.A. at Franklin Pierce College in 1970. In 1975 she earned her M.S. in Animal Science at Arizona State University for her work on the behavior of cattle in different squeeze chutes. Dr. Grandin was awarded her Ph.D in Animal Science from the University of Illinois in 1989 and is currently a Professor at Colorado State University.
About the film
Director Mick Jackson teams with screenwriters Christopher Monger and William Merritt Johnson to tell the story of autistic icon Temple Grandin, a woman who refused to let her disorder limit her true potential. Adapted from Grandin’s own writings, the film allows the audience to experience the world much like she does while recounting her colorful life and remarkable achievements from childhood to adulthood.
Doors open at 12:00 p.m.
Event begins at 12:30 p.m.
Science on Screen events offer free admission but are ticketed. Tickets are available in person at the Athena Cinema one week in advance.
For more information on Dr. Grandin’s Frontiers in Science lecture, Educating All Kinds of Minds, click here.
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Science on Screen® is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Science on Screen program pairs films with a short talk with a scientist or technology expert. The free Science on Screen events are fun and engaging, offering dynamic speakers an unexpected jumping point to teach their field of expertise in a way that is accessible to a diverse audience.
Free admission to this event is provided by Arts for OHIO.
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